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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp won a major victory in a closely-watched lawsuit yesterday when a judge ruled that the company did not defraud investors out of up to $1.6 billion by hiding the true cost of climate change regulation.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Opposition activists and independent journalists in Communist-run Cuba said state security and police stopped them from leaving their homes yesterday to prevent them marking or reporting on international Human Rights Day.

WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Increasing tremor activity on a volcanic island in New Zealand has hampered efforts by authorities to recover the bodies of eight people believed to be on the island, two days after it erupted.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded yesterday afternoon near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, police said.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Peronist leader, Alberto Fernandez, was sworn in as president yesterday, marking a shift to the left for Latin America’s No.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced impeachment charges against President Donald Trump today, making him the fourth president in U.S.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Gambia’s legal team described mass rapes, the burning of families in their homes and killing of dozens of Muslim Rohingya children with knives as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the U.N.’s

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark is moving forward with plans to build an artificial island tying in power from offshore wind farms of up to 10 gigawatts (GW) of capacity, more than enough to supply all households, as part of efforts to meet ambitious climate change targets.

WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Eight people were missing and presumed dead after a volcanic eruption covered a small New Zealand island popular with tourists in hot ash and steam, killing five people and seriously injuring around 30 more.

MADRID (Reuters) – The European Union will not hesitate to take steps to protect its industries from competitors who do not respect the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb global warming, the EU’s top climate official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog said yesterday that it found numerous errors but no evidence of political bias by the FBI when it opened an investigation into contacts between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia in 2016.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will send an emergency security force to the indigenous reserve of Cana Brava in the northeastern state of Maranhao to protect the Guajajara tribe after two members were shot dead over the weekend, a government decree said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog said it found numerous errors but no evidence of political bias by the FBI when it opened an investigation into contacts between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia in 2016.

LAUSANNE/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia was banned from the Olympics and other major world championships today after sporting officials decided to punish it for tampering with doping-related laboratory data in another blow to Russia’s already tarnished sporting reputation.

Health experts warn of emerging threat of Nipah virus      LONDON, (Reuters) – A deadly virus called Nipah carried by bats has already caused human outbreaks across South and South East Asia and has “serious epidemic potential”, global health and infectious disease specialists said on Monday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic lawmakers could vote this week on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the House Judiciary Committee chairman said today as lawmakers sharpened their focus on charges of wrongdoing in his dealings with Ukraine.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today promised lower immigration if he wins power in an election on Thursday, but said he was not hostile to allowing foreigners to work and live in Britain overall.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives met behind closed doors yesterday to prepare for what could be the final week of their months-old impeachment inquiry that has imperiled Donald Trump’s presidency.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading into Britain’s election on Thursday with a lead in opinion polls, but some of the surveys also suggest that his chance of winning a parliamentary majority could be too close to call.

UNNAO, India (Reuters) – A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital, prompting protests from opposition leaders who blamed the ruling party for failing to check incidents of violence against women.